Creating a Yearbook Page Student Guide
Assignment Information
Purpose: Create a yearbook page with text, images, and graphics for a real person or
fictional character from a reading.
Summary: In this assignment, you will choose a character or person from a reading
assignment from this quarter to make the focus of a yearbook page. Based on your
selection, you will create a yearbook page for the character or person using text,
images, and graphics that help explain who the person is.
Assignment Prompt
Choose a character from the texts you have read in this quarter. You can pick a fictional
character or a real person. Create a yearbook page that expresses who this person is.
Include images and graphics that reflect the actions and personality of the individual.
Thoroughly research your character so that the yearbook page sufficiently describes
him or her.
Assignment
Step 1: Choose the subject of your yearbook.
a) Review the texts that you read in this quarter to choose a person whom you
find interesting to be the subject of your yearbook page.
b) Brainstorm ideas about the character’s accomplishments, actions, personality
traits, and goals that can be used on his or her yearbook page.
c) List the ideas that would tell the most about the character. You may want to
create a chart to take notes and organize your thoughts.
Step 2: Focus on tone and style.
a) Review the type of writing that is appropriate for a yearbook page.
b) Choose a writing tone and style that are appropriate to the subject and to the
format of a yearbook.
Step 3: Outline key ideas.
a) Make an outline of the key points you want to make about the character.
b) Use the text as evidence for the character’s background. For a real person,
however, you may need to do some additional research.
c) Remember to save your work as you go.
Step 4: Search for images.
a) Search for images to represent the person, the person’s goals, and main
events in his or her life.
b) Choose public-domain images. Ask a teacher if you are unsure whether an
image is free to use.
c) Save the locations of all the images that you might use
Step 5: Start creating your yearbook page.
a) Choose one of the yearbook templates or begin your own file.
b) Add text and images. If you are using one of the templates, select the image
icon to insert an image. Insert any text into the text boxes. Ask a teacher if you
do not know how to do this with your word-processing software.
c) For each text/image box, include a combination of these elements:
 An image with a caption
 A list of accomplishments or “bests”
 A description of a main event in the individual’s life
 Images of the character/person or of related items
 Other descriptions of the character/person
 A “most likely to” reference
 A motto for the individual
 A quotation the individual might like
d) Remember to save your work as you go.